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Subject:Re: Usability: Serif and Sans-Serif font faces? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 14 May 2004 19:28:33 -0400
Dick Margulis wrote:
>> As background for someone who sought basic knowledge about what
>> purpose serifs served, it is not an "urban myth." It's historical
>> fact. The issue under discussion in my post wasn't whether, in
fact,
>> one style is more readable than the other, but the basic facts that
>> are pretty clear in their reality *historically.*
>>
>
> And I reply again, collegially, because I always feel that Bonnie
and
> get along okay, that this is balderdash.
>
>
I am astonished to hear this, Dick, because it seems to me that quite
reputable people have written it and taught it. I will see what I can
find out. Thanks for your persistence; I wouldn't want to spread
around false information. ; )
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